Sentences with phrase «at calling strikes»

But the best is the enemy of the good; the most imperfect machine - vision system currently available would probably do a better job at calling strikes at the bottom of the strike zone (especially on breaking pitches) than human umpires do.

Not exact matches

Organized as a follow - up to January's Women's March on Washington, the one - day walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear red.

Defense Secretary James Mattis called the strikes a «one time shot» aimed at the Syrian government's chemical weapons infrastructure.

Joshua B. Freeman, labor historian and CUNY professor at Queens College in New York said he would call the contract a win for the union, while noting the increasing rarity of a strike of that size and length.

Abrams also struck a deal to sell a new paint line called Origins exclusively at hardware retailer Canadian Tire Supply.

While Jeb Bush called himself a «disruptor» and touted his Apple fanboy credentials, and Marco Rubio gave economic speeches at the Washington offices of tech giants like Google and Uber, Trump took the opposite tack, striking an actively hostile pose.

A coalition of adverse forces seemed allied against Foster's determination and high hopes: (1) there was potential for a strike, should Foster balk at union demands; (2) 1983 might have proved not even close to the bottom of the recession for heavy machinery; (3) who knew what EPA standards the former owner had let slide, that the new one might be called on to correct?

Over the past week, investors have bought more than 37,000 calls at the January 20 strike price in Regions Financial, according to Jon Najarian, Najarian Family Office co-founder and «Halftime Report» contributor.

China has reportedly tested its hypersonic strike vehicle called «Wu - 14,» which has been tested at least four times since January 2014.

HEX writes call options on most of its portfolio, usually with a one month maturity and at a strike price slightly higher than the prevailing market price.

TIRRELL: So, Regeneron and its partner Sanofi struck a deal with pharmacy benefits manager express scripts, agreeing to lower the cost of the drug called Praluent to a range of $ 4,500 to $ 8,000 a year, a 70 percent discount at the lower end.

Here's a quick review of how they work: An ETF of, say, three stocks writes (sells) call options on the three firms at a fixed «strike» price and for a premium.

If you sell me a September 2011 call option with a strike price of $ 19 on your XIU ETF for a premium of 40 cents, it gives me the right, but not the obligation, to buy your XIU ETF from you at $ 19 at any time before the option expires.

What was striking in the aftermath of the carnage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is that, now, even the victims and survivors are willing to call their leaders out.

For example, if the stock is callable at $ 100 and the shares are trading very close to that (say, at $ 99), the likelihood that the stock will be called soon is much higher than if the stock were trading at $ 89 (further away from the strike price).

If you had chosen «Call» and the price of the asset is higher than the strike price, at the end of the contract period, you win the trade.

When we are fully hedged, as we are at present (and provided that our long - put / short - call option combinations have identical strike - prices and expirations), the source of our returns is the performance of our favored stocks relative to the indices which we use to hedge.

Marceau presented the economic road map at a critical time for the minority PQ, which is widely expected to call a snap election in the coming weeks as polls suggest Marois is within striking distance of a majority mandate.

A futures contract is a contract between two people that involves buying or selling a specific asset for a given price today (called the strike price), and paying for it at a later date (called the delivery date).

At the time of writing last month I proposed rolling the covered calls on CVX by closing the existing position (the $ 105 strike at $.15 or the $ 110 at $.05) and selling a July 105 call for $.93 or a July 100 call for $ 2.9At the time of writing last month I proposed rolling the covered calls on CVX by closing the existing position (the $ 105 strike at $.15 or the $ 110 at $.05) and selling a July 105 call for $.93 or a July 100 call for $ 2.9at $.15 or the $ 110 at $.05) and selling a July 105 call for $.93 or a July 100 call for $ 2.9at $.05) and selling a July 105 call for $.93 or a July 100 call for $ 2.98.

For a call to make money, the price must be above the strike price at the expiry time.

She / he finds one that offers a 60 % payout if the option expires above the strike price (call option), but if the price is below 1,800 at the expiry time, she / he will lose 90 % of the investment.

Let's say you buy a call option, which gives you the right to purchase Apple at a strike price of $ 500 per share by the end of the month.

Elizabeth Warren responded to the president's «Pocahontas» poke by calling it «racist» and sending out a fundraising appeal pleading with donors to strike back at a «bully.»

TD is basing the fresh assessment on the fact that a whopping 70,000 units are set to be completed this year and next — a number the bank calls «striking» — at a time when buyer demand for new units already appears to be «dwindling,» the bank said.

A long - term - oriented value investor is a batter in a game where no balls or strikes are called, allowing dozens, even hundreds, of pitches to go by, including many at which other batters would swing.

Dell was using options as a way to be «long» its own stock without shelling out much cash (buying a call and selling a put at the same strike price is an «equivalent long position», as option traders would say).

One example of risk - control is to use call options, placing the strike price at about the level where a breakdown in trend - following measures would be expected to occur, which provides a natural «contingent exit» if prices deteriorate further, particularly if they deteriorate abruptly.

In a richly valued market, that sort of risk control is most appropriately established using call options having a strike price situated at about the point where various trend - following measures would turn negative — what is known in finance as a «contingent position» because the position creates its own exit if the market deteriorates further without an interim recovery - and particularly if it deteriorates abruptly.

Buy to open the Jun18 150 - strike calls on URI at $ 6.80 or better.

He works, at the beginning of the novel, at a Chicago bookstore, but he can't shake his calling; strangers will unload their anxieties on them, struck by a supernatural confessional urge.

One way to illustrate the full scope of this problem would be to look more closely at the horizonal character of the ecstatic past in contrast with the past of the ordinary interpretation of time, which is only understood by negative contrast with the present.5 Here Mason, apparently following Whitehead, allows us to make a particularly striking contrast: we can never change the past» he says (p. 95), meaning to evoke what Heidegger calls Dasein's «facticity» and to compare it with the objectivity with which perished actual occasions confront the concrescing actual entity in Whitehead.

Police were called to London Bridge at around 10.08 pm on Saturday to reports of a vehicle striking pedestrians.

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

If disagreements about doctrine do not strike at the heart of Christianity, then mutual tolerance is called for.

Reports are coming in that at least 58 people are dead in what witnesses call a chemical weapons strike in northern Syria.

In at least one case, a student has been on a hunger strike, calling for increased action from the school's administration, including the resignation of Wolfe.

The next part of the book is devoted to what I called «revolutionary theology,» a phrase that, at least in those days, struck people as a world - class oxymoron.

I still have serious concerns regarding the World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi in 1986, both in its reality and in the media myth, which struck me at the time, and today, as a movement away from the message of Catholicism as a Church called to convert the world and to be the «sign of contradiction» in the world.

While Mahathir played on some of the most unsavory notes in contemporary Islamic culture, few commentators at the time noted that he struck those notes in service of doctrinal moderation, in the call for a progressive and reformed Islam, one less captive to narrow traditionalism and more open to science and philosophy.

The Coalition is calling for a one - day strike of professors and students at Harvard Law School in order to advance «the issue of «normalization,» or making our school look more like the society in which we live.»

The 540 ml glass sauce jar, which Aegg calls the «subtle dog bone», is taller than existing ones on the market and not so rounded at the top, giving it better shelf space and a more striking appearance.

Hahaha at times I wonder about this thing in football called loyalty.So imagine a world where all players were loyal to their clubs till the end of time.If that were to happen many so called top clubs wouldnt have top players.He left for the right reasons and I wish him all the best.If Arsene wants to go for him he should.Every player is a traitor as long as he wants to move but the club does nt want to sell or every club is a traitor to a player who wanted to stay but the club wanted to ship him out by force.This is life so deal with.I'd take him in a heartbeat because to me am sick and tired of being sick and tired of watching this awful and terrible striking force.Nonsense!!!!

What a failire he's become.He was bought as the man supposed to lead the line and send us to glory and now he becomes a so called super sub.I don't get it.France's leading striker is a super sub at Arsenal.Since he came here he's part of the reason why we've not been able to win the league.He's also part of the reason why Wenger remains hesitant in signing a world class striker since for some reason he still believes in him.He's really affected Arsenal a lot which I don't kbow if many have realized.At times playing with him is like playing with no striker at all.This inconsistencies won't help us at all going forward We have absolutely zero quality in striking department.

With laserlike precision, he pecks away at the outside corner with such regularity that he gets more pitches farther off the plate called strikes than anyone else.

A weak pop up to RF and two k's swinging at breaking balls well out of the zone and another on a called strike.

the catcher always keeps this circumstance to allow the ump the best look at the plate and hopefully a strike call.

Sunday's weather report calls for scattered thunderstorms in Indianapolis, which would make a fast track slick and drive fans into the paddock to avoid lightning strikes at a venue choked with metal bleacher seats.

Typically being a good over umpire means calling a very tight strike zone, and it will be interesting to see if that zone beings to expand at all in his third season.

Yasiel Puig grounds out, which at least wasn't a strikeout, but don't worry, Astros» fans: Logan Forsythe was then called out on strikes in a hurry, Morton's seventh of the game.